How To Cut a Bustier.

Hello,

It's a beautiful Monday and I hope you having a great day.

There is joy in lifting others, this is because no man is an island of knowledge, while learning my tailoring skills, I've had a lot of people who taught me different methods of cutting, and that really helped my skill and so I find joy in sharing my knowledge to anyone who reaches out to me.

Last week Friday, an online friend reached out to me to teach her how to cut a breast pad (off-shoulder)and since sharing my knowledge is a way of life, I decided to look for a very small piece of fabric to share my knowledge with her online and here too so that it can be of help to anyone too.

Materials needed for this project;

African print
Breast pad
Scissors
Tape measurement
Lining

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The first step is to get the measurement of your client. For this project, I worked with a bust measurement of 33 inches.

I divided it by 4 inches and added 10 inches for the dart manipulation and seam allowance.

I deducted 5 inches away from my half-length measurement since it was an off-shoulder.

I folded my fabrics and inserted the bust span measurement, her bust span is 7 inches, so I divided the bust span by 2 which gave me 3.5, and then added 0.25 to the measurement which gave me a total of 3.75 inches, which was what I marked on the fabric.

On the right hand, I came out with 1 inch for the bust tightening, and for the armhole, I went in with 2.5 inches and then I marked.

For the underbust, I used 0.5 for the left side tightening and then I used 1.5 inches for the waist tightening.

I joined the dots together and marked them using my drench curve and made my bust curve on the bust point as seen in the picture.

I went ahead to cut it out, I place the pieces of my breast pad and made the cut, and did the same for the lining.

After cutting, I ensured I secured the pad to the fabrics using my pin, so it doesn't shift from its original position.

When I proceeded to sew around the pad carefully.
Joining the mid part and the sides together, I did for both sides.

I proceeded to give it a very good press so that the cup comes out nicely.

After ironing, here is what it looks like, though it is still a work in progress in that, after making the pad, I was inspired to continue the project as a very fancy peplum top.

I would go ahead to turn the neckline with my lining and finish up the project but that would be displayed in my next tutorial 🙊.

My focus today was on how to achieve a very good padding and I hope you enjoyed reading.

_{P.s
My friend was so excited she learned something that day and she promised to try it out on her own.}

_{All images used are mine, cut and sewn by me.}